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Regulating health information: a US perspectiveCommentary: Legal aspects of health on the
internet: a European perspective
Regulating health information: a US perspective
Nicolas Terry Center for Health Law Studies,
Saint Louis University School of Law, 3700 Lindell Blvd, St Louis, MO
63108, USA terry@slu.edu
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Technologically mediated health care raises problems of quality of information, cross border practice, and patient confidentiality. Nicolas Terry probes the legal aspects of these complexities, and Benedict Stanberry adds a European perspective
Identifying the regulatory agenda for health information is not difficult. The quality of publicly available health information, cross border medical and pharmacy practice, and the privacy of medical records appear on the radar screens of most public health and consumer protection organisations. Left unregulated, any of these issues can cause considerable harm. Each issue also embodies difficult tensions: state versus federal rights, increased access to care versus quality assurance, and confidentiality versus professional discourse.
US state and federal legal systems have not achieved a coherent
approach to regulating the dissemination of health information. Furthermore, the American experience will not always transfer directly
to publicly funded medicine and government initiatives. Nevertheless
the American experience with private sector ehealth is
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